...Collective Behavior
Spontaneous Collective Behavior
1- Watching a confrontation between two people in a public place while the crowd signals to people around them and tape what is going on.
My husband and I were vacationing in a foreign country when we witnessed a physical altercation between two people. When two men began to fight in public, bystanders were immediately responsive to the situation. The first act of many was to call the police and report the details of what was going on. Others, possibly seeing that the incident had already been reported or possibly not caring, rushed to get closer the men. Many were armed with video recording devices which they used to capture the details of the match. A crowd gathered around as the police arrived and the paramedics attempted to reach the injured and treat their wounds after one of the person involved in the fight shot the other one. My husband and I ran away when we heard the gun shot but we could still see how the crowd reacted to the event in the distance. The police officers and the paramedics tried to keep the people away from the scene but a lot of people remained close to the site and tried to tape the events with their electronic devices. We felt very worried and scared after this event and even tried to change the dates of our trip to return earlier.
2- Founding out that my grandfather had passed away.
Discovering that my Grandfather had passed away was......

...The List
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10/16/2013
I find myself on the ledge of a building with two of his thugs grabbing me. I think to myself how did I get here? Should I have done what I did? Is this the end? I should start from the beginning.
I grew up in a wealthy house hold. My father was well known for breakthroughs in the technology field. He was working on many projects but the one that made him a multi-millionaire was the work in self-sustaining energy. When I was eighteen, my father and I went on a trip to China, a trip that would change our lives forever. It was a pretty quiet plane ride. Dad was working on his laptop and I was listening to music. I noticed there was a very bad storm out of the window. The plane was shaking. Suddenly the lights went out and the oxygen masks deployed. Something hit my head.
The next thing I know we are in the water and my dad is yelling my name. I see him in the distance swimming towards me. He gets to me and gives me his life vest. He tells me that I have to survive, that his company isn’t what I thought it was. He gives me a book with a list of names and tells me that everyone on that list has done terrible things to stay rich, and that he is no different. He told me stories of how he and the people on this list got wealthy by stepping on the necks of the poor. That he has had people hurt or killed to keep his company on top.
He stayed with me as long as he could but as time went by he got weaker. He couldn’t......

...STRATEGY PORTER’S FIVE COMPITITIVE FORCES SWOT: TIEUPS AND ACQUISITIONS CABLE AND WIRELESS FLAG Telecom CRITICISM ON STRATEGY ADOPTED BY RELIANCE
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RELIANCE GROUP
ABOUT The Reliance Group was founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani is India's largest business house. Total revenues : Rs 99,000 crore Cash profit : Rs 12,500 crore Net profit : Rs 6,200 crore Exports : Rs 15,900 crore Reliance Group revenue is equivalent to about 3.5% of India's GDP. The Group contributes nearly 10% of the country's indirect tax revenues and over 6% of India's exports. Reliance is trusted by an investor family of over 3.1 million - India's largest. Every 4th investor in India has Reliance shares. Reliance is the only Indian private company to make the Fortune 500 list of the world’s largest corporations FACTS Some facts about Reliance Group:
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Company Profile The Reliance Group founded by Dhirubhai H. Ambani (1932-2002) is India's largest business house with total revenues of over Rs 99,000 crore (US$ 22.6 billion), cash profit of Rs 12,500 crore (US$ 2.8 billion), net profit of Rs 6,200 crore (US$ 1.4 billion) and exports of Rs 15,900 crore (US$ 3.6 billion). The Group's activities span exploration and production (E&P) of oil and gas, refining and marketing, petrochemicals (polyester, polymers, and
intermediates), textiles, financial services and insurance, power, telecom and infocomm initiatives. The Group exports its products to more than 100 countries the world over. Reliance......

...many news stories. Collective bargaining is a responsibility of the labor unions in which the writer of this post is the most familiar. This topic was chosen as a result of academic curiosity and an interest in developing a better understanding of the role of labor unions and collective bargaining in other countries.
Explanation of Collective Bargaining
In the United States the idea of collective bargaining has changed as labor relations between employees and employers have evolved and improved. In the past the idea of collective bargaining was not widely understood and there were opposing opinions on how to define collective bargaining. Chamberlain (1944) identifies two of these definitions: 1) “the process of arriving at an agreement as to terms and conditions of employment between a single workman and his employer, where the workman is represented by a labor union of which he is a member.” 2) “the arbitral decisions in which no negotiation may be involved”. In the first definition opponents may argue that the process was not collective. However, if the second definition is applied it could be argued that no bargaining occurs. Today, the definition has evolved to a more widely accepted definition as defined by Ball, Geringer, Mcnett, and Minor (2013) as “the process in which a union represents the interests of workers bargaining in negotiations with management” (p. 430). The remaining sections of this paper will explore if and how collective bargaining exists in...

...Collective Agreements
As the collective aggreements are the negotiating tool between shareholders and employees, I initially prefer to make the analyses of the systems this tool aims to serve. On one side of the spectrum there are capitalist firms, where as on the other side we can say there exist the Labour managed Enterprises. In order to propose a better alternative to replace the collective aggreements we think a swot analysis for both side of the spectrum from the employee and company perspective would be useful.
SWOT
Labour Managed Enterprise Capitalist Firm
Strength From Employee perspective:
Higher motivation
Job security
Higher trust in the company
Higher ownership
From Profitability perspective:
Higher productivity due to above From Employee perspective:
Flexibile mobility
Low risk
Stable income
No long term commitment requirement
From Profitability perspective:
Faster organizations
Quick decisions in a competitive environment
Experienced and educated management with vision
Long term profitability priority
Weakness Low motivation to self development
From Profitability perspective:
Insufficient commitment mechanism
(“I” comes before “company”)
Opportunities Increasing unemployment
Rising individualizm culture
Threats Financing
Difficulty in raising Risk bearer capital Increased competitiveness
Increased importance of workers in productivity
As both systems carry pros and cons, an alternative to current collective......

...Define the term “collective bargaining” and list and describe four issues that are mandatory components of a collective bargaining agreement.
Collective Bargaining is the process in which employer and employees determinate the terms and conditions of employment (Budd, p. 11). It is meticulously thought out and written a contract, between employer and employee. This is a legal document enforceable for a one year period (AFL-CIO).
These are the major subjects of bargaining:
* Compensation: wages, benefits, vacations and holidays, shift premiums, profit sharing.
* Personnel policies and procedures: Layoff, promotion, and transfer policies, overtime and vacation rules.
* Employee rights and responsibilities: seniority rights, job standards, workplace rules
* Employer rights and responsibilities: management rights, just cause discipline and discharge, subcontracting, safety standards. (Budd, p. 11)
According to ABC News, Brian Bennett from ESPN talked about Northwestern players get Union Vote. The NLRB ruled that Northwestern Football players qualify as an employee of the university and can unionize. This was accepted after three years member colleges and universities have worked to re-evaluate the current rules. This is beneficial for employees in this case the athlete and employer in this case university. The player is an employee since the player sign a contract for the university and as result obtain a scholarship. For now, the push is to unionize......

...EXPORT CENTRES COMPANY LIMITED & BANK AND GENERAL WORKERS UNION
COLLECTIVE AGREEMENT DRAFT PROPOSAL # 1: JULY 2011
|Article No. |Union's Proposals for the conclusion of a Collective Agreement for the three (3) year period but which period is yet to be determined. |E.C.C.L's Proposal |
|PREAMBLE |This Agreement is intended: - |Agreed , "e" should be protect. |
| |(a) To promote, protect and improve the welfare and interest of workers and the Company. | |
| |(b) To promote and maintain at all times Labour/Management cooperation. | |
| |(c) To maintain orderly collective bargaining relations between the Parties. | |
| |(d)......

...Collective bargaining
One of the aims of a trade union is to negotiate with employers about matters affecting their members and other employees. Once a trade union is recognized in a workplace, the negotiations they have with the employer are called collective bargaining; these negotiations will be regarding terms and conditions of employment.
Trade unions and employers will agree on how the process will operate, for example:
* who will represent the workers, or group of workers (bargaining unit) in negotiations
* which workers are included in the bargaining unit
* how often meetings will take place
* which issues, including which terms and conditions will be discussed
* how failures to agree will be resolved
* how discussions will work if more than one trade union is recognised
For trade unions and employers who face problems at work which result in a dispute Acas can help. Collective conciliation can move parties towards a resolution of a dispute through the expertise of an impartial and independent third party - for example through the use of Acas services.
Bargaining is conducted by trade unions and employers. The union side may be made up of full-time officials, workplace representatives or a mix of both. Local union representatives are now much more likely to be involved in collective bargaining. The employers' side can be the individual employer or, if at industry level, the employers' association.
There will often be several unions......

...Collective Bargaining:
CB is one of the major tool of promoting industrial relationship between owners/stakeholders/management and employees/labor. Before stating a healthy discussion on collective bargaining, its functions, process and agreement, first we have an on his historical background.
The first time in history Miss Beatrice Webb, used the term “collective bargaining” in 1891. She was the one of the founder of industrial relations field (Wilkinson 2014). CB was a sort of group or no of group’s collective negotiations and agreements that was existed since we found industrial revolution in G. Britrain, during the formations of trade unions.
Later many governments provided it legal protection through passing executive orders. For example, in 1935 the National labor relations Act was made it illegal for all the employers of USA that they can’t deny union rights or an employee. Although until 1950s, it was more controversial that unionizing government employees in a public owned sector trade union. At last in 1962 USA president gave rights to unionize in public sector organizations by passing an executive order.
Collective bargaining is the procedure that makes or changes the aggregate understanding. It is basically the procedure of progressing proposition, talking about them, accepting counter-recommendations and determining contrasts. The essential objective of collective bargaining is the accomplishment of an aggregate haggling assertion between the union and......

...1. Define and discuss the term “collective bargaining”
Collective bargaining is the process of negotiations involving the representatives of the employer and employee for terms and conditions of employment that will apply to the employee. In the United States the negotiations that happen between concerning parties are written into legally binding contracts and usually last from one to five years (Budd).
On the Huffington Post website, a writer by the name of Amanda Terkel writes about the labor conflicts that happened in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Indiana states. Governor Scott Walker from the state of Wisconsin tried to deprive the state’s public-employee unions for having collective bargaining rights. He stated that this will make it possible to shore up the states estimated 3 billion loss. The legislative action that has caused major protest in Madison, Wisconsin, with gatherings around 25,000 protestors while Wisconsin’s Democratic senators have fled the state to stop the bill from being voted on. Thousands of opponents of Ohio’s Senate proposed collective bargaining overhaul surrounded the statehouse with chants of kill the ill prior to the hearing of Ohio’s Senate Bill 5. The bill is written to do away with collective bargaining rights to state employees and cut back the rights of local level government employees. While the state of Indiana’s legislature is considering a bill that will strip Indiana teachers of their collective bargaining rights between local......

...Name____________________________ Score_____________
Course/Year & Section Date______________
POSSESSIVE FORMS OF NOUNS
A. Write the correct possessive form of the singular nouns enclosed in parentheses.
1. That was (Father Lucas) ____________________ last mass in the parish because he had to leave for the United States.
2. Every one was fascinated by the (minstrel) ____________________ love song.
3. The Bamboo Dancers by N.V.M. Gonzales tackles the (Filipino) ___________ weak sense of identity.
4. The story is about (Page) ____________________ struggle to cope with life after
the war.
5. (Urduja) ____________________ husband gave himself to the gods.
6. Adults should not take little (children) ___________________ quarrels seriously.
7. Each group of players tried to move the ball behind what we now call the (opponents) ____________________ goal line.
8. The (villages and towns) ______________________________ people played against one another with hundreds of them taking part.
9. The game is played mainly by men and boys but there are some (women)__________ teams, too.
10. Many (students) _____________________ bags are loitered along the corridor.
11. Where is the (Parents) ____________________ Assembly being held?
12. Whose (nurse) ____________________ cap is this?
13. Give (Dennis) ____________________ book back to him right now.
14. Aren’t these......

...noun clause
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Definition:
A dependent clause that functions as a noun (that is, as a subject,object, or complement) within a sentence. Also known as a nominal clause.
Two common types of noun clause in English are that-clauses andwh-clauses:
* that-clause: I believe that everything happens for a reason.
* wh-clause: How do I know what I think, until I seewhat I say?
See also:
* Complement Clause
* Gerund
* Infinitive
* Noun Phrase
Examples and Observations:
* "When Mrs. Frederick C. Little's second son arrived, everybody noticed that he was not much bigger than a mouse."
(E.B. White, Stuart Little, 1945)
* "A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students."
(John Ciardi, Saturday Review, 1966)
* "I know that there are things that never have been funny, and never will be. And I know that ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon."
(Dorothy Parker)
* "I believe that there is a subtle magnetism in Nature, which, if we......